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Locality Name:
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 18020
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-18020.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 41
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Blavozy
Ceyssac
Coubon
Espaly-Saint-Marcel
Freycenet-la-Tour
La Garde D’Ours
La Garde De Mons
Le Riou
Ours
Polignac
Saint-Christophe-sur-Dolaison
Saint-Privat-d'Allier
Taulhac
Vals-près-le-Puy

Latitude: 45°1'15"N
Longitude: 3°53'11"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.020833333333,3.8863888888889

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Beryl	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Cristobalite
Diaspore	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Mica	Milarite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pseudobrookite
Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Titanite	Topaz	Tourmaline	Tridymite
Zircon

Aegirine-augite ()*	Almandine ()*	Antimony ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chayesite ()*	Cordierite ()*	Corundum ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Diopside ()*	Fayalite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Forsterite ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Kyanite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Mullite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nepheline ()*
Opal ()*	Osumilite-(Mg) ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Roedderite ()*	Rutile ()*	Sanidine ()*	Schorl ()*	Siderite ()*
Sillimanite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*	Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*
Tridymite ()*	Zircon ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al Au B C Ca F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Sb Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al F O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Arsenic Beryl Calcite Clay Copper Corundum Cristobalite
Diaspore Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Mica Milarite None Not in a structural group Olivine Pseudobrookite
Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Titanite Topaz Tourmaline Tridymite
Zircon

42 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	1	51083	286
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	51107	2353
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1	51086	363
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	5	51076,51077,51079,51083,51105	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	12	51076,51080,51083,51084,51085,51090,51092,51098,51102,51104,51107,51113	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	51083,51084,51085,51086,51105	27770
Chayesite ()*	Milarite	KMg₄Fe³⁺[Si₁₂O₃₀]	1	51083	5
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	2	51076,51083	1008
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	21	51074,51076,51077,51078,51080,51082,51083,51084,51085,51087,51088,51090,51092,51095,51096,51098,51099,51102,51108,51109,51113	1797
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	51083	453
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	51083	4135
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1	51083	371
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	51102	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	51098	9617
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	2	51083,51085	1188
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	51076	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	51085	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	51083,51085,51113	14640
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	51084	367
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	51076	5433
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	51076	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	8	51076,51083,51084,51085,51090,51092,51098,51113	14899
Mullite ()*	None	Al_4+2xSi_2-2xO_10-x (x ≈ 0.4)	1	51083	78
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	51098	17380
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	2	51076,51083	884
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	51076	2994
Osumilite-(Mg) ()*	Milarite	KMg₂Al₃(Al₂Si₁₀)O₃₀	1	51083	42
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	1	51083	164
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	51086,51098	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	51083,51084,51085,51086,51090,51092,51098,51102,51113	61156
Roedderite ()*	Milarite	KNaMg₂(Mg₃Si₁₂)O₃₀	1	51083	30
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	3	51083,51085,51098	5614
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	51083	598
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	51098	2705
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	51076	6417
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	8	51076,51080,51083,51084,51090,51092,51098,51102	1516
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	51086	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	8	51076,51080,51085,51090,51092,51098,51102,51113	1934
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	8	51076,51083,51085,51090,51092,51098,51102,51113	4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	0		1476
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	51083	458
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	22	51074,51076,51077,51080,51082,51083,51084,51085,51087,51088,51090,51092,51095,51096,51098,51099,51100,51102,51107,51109,51110,51113	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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